 | The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant
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 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche
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 | The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran
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 | Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye
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 | Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History by Norman O. Brown
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 | Ethics Including the Improvement of the Understanding (Great Books in Philosophy) by Benedictus de Spinoza
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 | Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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 | The Sovereignty of Good (Routledge Classics) by Iris Murdoch
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 | The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
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 | The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
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 | Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
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 | Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
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 | Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays by Stanley Cavell
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 | The Human Condition (2nd Edition) by Hannah Arendt
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 | Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure by René Girard
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 | The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections by Richard Poirier
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 | The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness by Pema Chodron
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 | Political Thought and Political Thinkers by Judith N. Shklar
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 | Psychotherapy of Neurotic Character by David Shapiro
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 | Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come, 2nd Edition by Professor Norman Cohn
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 | Re-Visioning Psychology by James Hillman
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 | The Only World We've Got: A Paul Shepard Reader
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| The Silence of God: Meditations on Prayer by James P. Carse
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 | The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought by Marilynne Robinson
Buy used from: $5.87 Why I'm grateful I was raised a Calvinist and not a Social Darwinist
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